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Wells all over Bangladesh tap into shallow aquifers with high concentrations of arsenic. Now researchers report that they may have identified a primary source of this contamination: manmade ponds near houses used for raising fish and bathing. ...
posted on 11/23/2009
Paleontologists have found some strange crocodile cousins beneath the sands of the Sahara in present-day Niger and Morocco. The creatures roamed during the Cretaceous period on the landmass Gondwana before it broke up into the southern continents. ...
posted on 11/23/2009
The Viking mission to Mars was ambiguous when it came to determining the existence of life on the planet. Ever since, NASA policy has been to search for habitability—how comfortable an environment would be to Earth organisms—before actually looking for life. ...
posted on 11/23/2009
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